About this blog:

This blog will feature tasting notes, reviews, distillery visits and whisky news with focus mainly on Scottish single malts. This will sometimes be accompanied by politically incorrect (whisky) opinions. You have now been warned! :-)The views expressed here are entirely my own, unless otherwise stated.

Thursday, 8 August 2013

PORT ELLEN 1982 25YO - BLADNOCH FORUM

Sitting here on a late Wednesday night, well its actually turned Thursday by now and have just opened a bottle of Brora from a single sherry butt... very befitting as I'll be doing a review from a distillery that closed the same year (1983) as Port Ellen.

Both were owned by the United Distillers aka Diageo these days... and many words from anoraks has been uttered in agony over the closure of these 2 distilleries. That said, I'm not gonna utter more - I'll just be happy with opportunities I've had to try Port Ellens (and Broras) and being able to go and open a bottle from these distilleries if I feel like it.

This Port Ellen was bottled around 6 years ago when Raymond Armstrong of Bladnoch Distillery was doing bottlings for the members of his online forum... this was before whisky prices went ape shit and this bottle of Port Ellen was aquired for about (without being sure) around £70-80 - great, eh? However, this is now all gone, but instead Raymond's son Martin (whiskybroker.co.uk) is bottling casks also at very decent prices...

Nose:
Old citrus smell, almost OBE, fish box, dull peat, seaweed, salty, oily (petrol). Also some rum soaked fruit in there. After a while some pineapple notes appear among the peaty ones, also some kippery notes in there. Good balance between an almost slight medicinal side and fruity notes...

About Me

My name is Claus Rasmussen. This is the 16th year on my whisky journey. It has led me far and wide, but mainly into scottish malts.
That said, also whiskies from the rest of the world has been tried, but I always go back to scottish malts. I'm also head the local whisky club and have done so for the last 6 years with great success.
If anyone wonders what my first malt was, it was Glenmorangie 10 back in Y2K.